Michael E. Thase is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and the Corporal Michael J Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center. A 1979 graduate of The Ohio State University College Medicine, Professor Thase completed internship, residency, chief residency, and post-doctoral training in clinical research at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), where he rose to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry and was Chief of the Division of Academic Adult Psychiatry before he moved to Philadelphia in 2007. A renowned teacher, mentor, administrator, researcher, and clinician. Dr. Thase is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and, a member of the American College of Psychiatrists. In 2019, he was elected to the membership of Penn Medicine’s Academy of Master Clinicians, an honor bestowed to only 2% of the medical faculty. He is a Past President of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Professor Thase is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a member of advisory boards for the Anxiety and Depressive Disorders Association, the National Network of Depression Centers, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. A highly cited psychiatrist, his 1300+ publications include numerous citation classics. His research has been continuously funded by federal agencies for the past 36 years and focuses on novel therapies for difficult to treat depression and CBT..